Brick sizer



J. R. TACKETT BRICK SIZER 3 Sheets-Sheet l oci. 19, 1926.

J. R. TACKETT BRICK SIZER Filed May 2l. 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 wf/vra@ 1,604,107 J. R. TACKETT I BRICK SIAZER Filed May 21, 1926 3 Sheets-Sheet, 5

Patented Oct. 19, 1926.

miens n. TACK-armor onivn HILL, KENTUCKY, Assienoaro GENERAL nnrnAC- 'ronnie COMPANY, or r-HiLAnnLrniA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION or PENNSYLVANIA.

BRICK ApjpIcatOn 4filed May 21,

The present invention relates to a brick sizer consisting of a press, a trimming 1nechanism through Vwhich lbricks .delivered from the press are passed, anda 1.re-,press to which 5 trimmed bricks from the trimming mechanism are ated, and the principal Objects of the present invention are to provide an improved trinnning mechanism Airom which chips may freely fall and which accurately sizes the bricks, and to provide ka simplified brick sizer of eiiicient operation. `Other objects oi the invention `will appear Jfrom the following description.

The present invention may be said to conA sist ost a brick sizercomprising a press and a rte-press, .a blade and a lsuperposed roller interposed between the `two presses and ar ranged with space between the blade and roller `Corresponding `to the thickness of a trimmed brick, aftilting table having its tree end disposed at the entrancefto the space between the blade and Yroller and adapted `to be depressed by an untrimmed brick ,passing Off the table and under the roller, thereby u presenting the `excess thickness of the brick below the blade, and .conveyer `means including a pusher for ffeeding .bricks delivered from the press along said table and through said space to trim ,them and Y.tor delivering thegtrirnrned bricks to the repress.

The invention lalso comprises the iniprovements to be presently described and finally claimed. Y

In the following description reference will be made to the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and in 1which there iis illustrated Va brick `einer ,embodying features of the invention and in whichn Figure 1 is a side elevational View of a brick sizer constituting one embodiment .of the invention. i i y l fFig. Qris a top or plan view with ,parts omitted. y y

Fig. `3 is a sectional view on ,the line Li-3 of Fig. 2 with par-ts omitted.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on `the line 11e-f4 of Fig. 2. l i

Fig. 5 isa top `or plan udetached View `of a part Oi the conveyer means.

6 is a similar view of another partoi' the conveyer means.

7 is anelevational view lpartly in section illustrating the assembly of the ,parts shown separately in Figsx and 6, and

SIZER.

19u26. Serial No. 110,603.

FigfS .is ya transverse sectional view taken on the line 8-8 of Fig. 7. i i

`iln the drawings 1 generally, is a press and 2, generally, is Y.a repress. These are well understood pieces of commercial apparatus.. However, may be said that each comprises a lplunger 3 adapted `to enter a mold `and reciprocated by the crank mechanism L1 1driven ilroin drive .shaft 5 and including safety springs 6. However, the pieces of machinery designated ,press and-repress are well known in manyforms to `those skilled .in .the art. 7 is a blade., concealed in ,p1-.but shown in Figs. 2 land 3, and 8, Fig. 1, is a superposed roller, and the blade and roller are `interposed between `the Itwo presses 1 and 2 and are arranged with s ace between Vthe blade and .roller `correspending to the `thickness .of trimmed brick. 9, Fig. 3, is a tilting `table hav-ing `its free end disposed at the entrance to the space between Ithe blades 7 and roller 8 and adapted to be depressed iby an untrimmed brick passingoff `the free end of the table 9 and under the .roller 8 thereby" presenting the excess thickness of rthe brick .below the Vblade so that chips .may fall by gravity. There are `conveyer Ameans including a pusher il() .for feedingbricks .delivered from the press 1 along Vthe tilting table l9 and through the space between the `,blade 7 and the roller or h olddown guide 8 to trim them and vl'or .dehveringthe trimmed bricksto the `repress 2. interposed between the `housings of the presses 1 .and 2 there is a yfixed frame con sisting or' side pieces or channel sectionsll and 12, .and across piece 13 which carries the blade 7. l i

. .Carried bythe `side pieces 11 and 12 are brackets 1li, Fig.` 1, to which are pivoted arms 15 that carry the `roller or hold-.down guide 8. 16 are adjusting eerews by means of which the distance of the roller 8 above the blade 7 can be increased or diminished` to increase or diminish `the `extent to which bricks are trimmed. There is also carried by the fixed frame an oil roller 17 and a fixed slotted table 18. The tiltingtable 9 is pivoted as at 19 to a lined portion-ot1 `the frame or machine, and its lfree or tilting end is normally positioned `in general align ment with .the blade 7 byl means of cent-rally pivoted spring pressed levers 2O carried by the side pieces 11 and The tilting table d fi of the presses. 'i connected with `the fixed frame so that when 9 is slotted as at 21. Slidable in respect to the fixed frame is a charger 22 and it is reciprocated by the crank motion mechanism Y23 of the press 2 through the intervention Yof a link 24. Pivoted to the charger 22 is the pusher and also th-e pusher 25, so that these pushers while incapable of 'turning movement are reciprocated in the direction 26 are switches pivotally the charger is moving toward the left in Fig. 1, the pushers ride up into lifted position and then drop back into substantial parallelism with the tilting table 9 and the i i'ixed table 18, and in that position they travel toward the right in Fig. 1 under and past the switches. rlhe purpose is to get the pitshers back of the ends of the bricks traveling from left to right in 1 in order that the pushcrs may push the bricks inthe direction of fromzthe press 1 tothe press 2. rlhe bricks are carried forward under the pushers when the latter are lifted by the switches through the intervention of carriers 27 and 28, Figs.V 5 and 7, thatwork in the'slots 21 and'18,`Fig. 2, with a motion ofr horizontal reciprocation and at the ends ofthe horizontal strokes with a motion of vertical reciprocation so that the feeder 29 of the charger pushes the bricks into the press 1 and these oncoming bricks pushbricks delivered from the mold of the press 1 into such `position that carriers 27 receive them,lift them abovethe table 9, and carry them under the pusher 10, While lifted on its switch 26, and redeposit them yon the table Qin front of the pusher 10 which pushes them past the knife 7 as has been described over the oil roller 17 and into range of the carrier 2.8 which puts the trimmed bricks in front of the pusher in the manner already described Lso that the pusher'25 feeds them to the press 2 where the oncomingF bricks push the trimmed and repressed and 5 therefore sized bricks to the off bearing belt 8O drivenby the gearing31.v The carriers 27 and 28, Fig. 7, are shown as provided with spurs 32 and they areV connectedtogether by Y rods 33, so that they maybe referred to col# lectivelyY as carriers. `The carriers have loose dowelpin connection 34 with a sliding frame 35 slidable in respect to the fixed frame 11,

12 andl 13. The slidable frame 35v is reciprocated by a rockerarm 36 rocked'byv a link 37 through a crank motion mechanism 38 driven from the driving mechanism Vof the press 1. The rocker arm 36isconnected by a link 3S) through a slot-and-pin connection 4 0 with the slidingframe There are rock shafts 41 carried by the slidingv frame 35 andthey are provided with centrally attached arms 42 and 43'of which one of the ends work under the carriers 27 and 28, and of which the other ends areV 'connected d by a link 44, and the end of 43 Visextended and connected by a link 45 with the rocker arm 36, thus movements of the rocker arm 3G oscillate rock shafts 41 and arms 42 and 43 of which the upper ends shown as fitted with rollers operate to raise and lower the carriers 27 and V28, for which purpose they are afforded freedom of motion by the dowel pins 34. The spring pushed .pin 46 operates upon the link 39 and guides the slot-and-pin connection 40.

The operation may be described asV follows: Y

rilhe bricks fed to the press 1 are pressed in the mold of the press 1 and are delivered from the box or mold of the press 1, preferably a little thicker than are the finished sized bricks. By the described operation of the carriers 27 and pusher 10, thebricks are l pushed along` the tilting table 9 in succession and spaced apart one after another until they run under the roller or guide 8 with the result that the table 9 is tilted down sufficiently to present the front end of the brick to the knife or blade 7 with the portion of the brick above the knife 7 and below theroller 8 of the required height, the surplus heightbeing below the blade 7, so that as the brick is fed toward the re-press the surplus is cutod from the under face of the. brick and the chips fall through the opening 47 provided for that purpose. The bricks having been trimmed to the right thickness by the 'removal of surplus material from their under faces are fed into the mold box of the repress 2 which of course is slightly larger than the mold boxV of the press 1 andin the mold box of thepress 2 the bricks are finished and emerge all of uniform size. 0f course the press and re-press mayfbe adapted to work upon one or more bricks at each operation. In the present instanceV Vare of the same volume;

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modifications may be made in details ofconstruc tion and arrangement and in matters Vof mere form withoutdeparting from the spirit of the' invention, which is not limited to such matters or otherwise than the prior art and the appended claims may'require,

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Y. l12 1. ,A brick sizer comprising a pressaiid `a Y re-press, a blade ,and a su'perposed roller interposed between the two' presses 'andarranged with space between the blade and roller corresponding to the thickness of a trimmed brick, a tilting table having its free end displ sed at the entrance to the space between the blade and roller and adapted to be depressed by an untriinrned brick passing oil the table and under the roller thereby presenting` the excess thickw ness ot the brick below the blade, and means for feeding ricks delivered from the press along the tilting` table and under the roller and over the knife and to the repress.

2. A brick size-r comprising a press and a re-press, e blade and e superposed roller interposed between the two presses and erranged with space between the blade and roller correspending` to the thickness of a trinnncd brick, :i tilting table having its free end disposed et the entrance to the space between the blade and roller and adapted to be depressed by an untriinined brick passing oll the table and under the roller thereby7 presentinfz;` the excess thickness ot the brick below the blade, and conveyer ineens including a pusher :t'or feeding` bricks `delivered from the press along said table and through said space to trini thein :1nd for delivering the trimmed bricks to the repress. f

In a brick sizer a press and a re-press, u fixed traine interposed between tbe presses and provided with ay blade5 a, spring pressed tilting table arranged in trent and clear ol' the blade, en adjustable down guide ar ranged abo-'ve the free end of the table and the blade, and e brick conveyer.

4. In a brick sizer e press end a re-press, fi iiiied table and d tiltinzg` table with an opening between for the passage of chips, end a blade and en oil roller carried by the liked table, a roller above the free end of the tilting table, and a brick conveyer.

5. In zi brick sizer a press and a re-press, a fixed blade and e tilting` table in controming spaced relation to provide an opening through which chips drop, a guide above the table and blade and under which bricks pass, and s brick conveyer.

JAMES R. TACKETT. 

